CREATE  創造

PRODUCE something BELIEVING that it has NEVER BEEN PRODUCED BEFORE.
ORIGINALITYPRODUCEGENERATEBRING INTO BEINGMAKEFABRICATEFASHIONBUILDCONSTRUCTDESIGNDEVISEORIGINATEFRAMEDEVELOPSHAPEFORMFORGECREATION
Antonym
  • COPYIMITATE something so as to PRODUCE something BASICALLY RESEMBLING.
    • TRANSMITRECORD OR REPORT so as to CAUSE LATER GENERATIONS TO KNOW something.
      Hypernym
      • PRODUCEACT so as to DELIBERATELY CAUSE something to BEGIN to EXIST.
        • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
          • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
            • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
      See also
      • PROVIDEPRODUCE, OR CAUSE it TO BE POSSIBLE TO USE, something USEFUL OR to MOVE something USEFUL to a certain PLACE WHERE it is NEEDED.
        • INVENTORSBIOGRAPHIES:
          • ESTABLISHCAUSE TO BECOME:come to ENDURINGLY EXIST.
            Hyponym
            • FAKE　CREATE SOMETHING WHICH PRETENDS TO BE WHAT IT IS NOT.
              • INVENT　CREATE as the FIRST PERSON to INVENT.
                Old Chinese Criteria
                1. The most general word is probably wéi 為 and this is sometimes used to refer to the act of cultural invention or creation, and the connotation may be positive or negative. The word focusses on the act of making something as such rather than the product as such.

                2. Zuò 作 (ant. shù 述 "transmit") focusses on an autonomous initiative being taken, and the word can refer to a commendable act of creation as well as a reprehensible act of political disobedience. The word focusses on the product resulting of the action.

                3. Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE

                4. Chuàng 創 (ant. jì 繼 "continue a line") is a rare word referring to the initiative to start something.

                5. Zào huà 造化 refers to both the process of creation, and of spontaneous cosmic transformation.

                Modern Chinese Criteria
                創造

                創作

                制造

                造成

                締造

                創設

                創制

                始創

                rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

                • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

                  CREATE

                  creare is to bring something into existence by one's own act of will and creative power.

                  gignere is to generate someting as part of a natural process like parturition.

                  generare represents the process of natural procreation or parturition as something divine, and the word can also be used in figurative senses when it is a divine or spiritual variant of creare.

                • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p.

                • The Ambivalence of Creation ( PUETT 2001) p.

                • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.1975

                • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 4.1194

                  KREATIVITAET

                • "Sachwoerterbuch zum Alten China" ( UNGER SACH) p.

                  ERFINDUNGEN

                • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 69

                  1. 刱 and 創 write the same word. This needs further investigation.

                • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 485

                • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

                  CREATIVITY

                • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 6.520

                  WERK (WORK OF ART)

                • 跟我學同義詞 ( CAI SHAOWEI 2010) p. 75

                • Quiddities. An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary ( QUINE 1987) p. 37

                Words

                作  zuò OC: tsaaɡs MC: tsuo̝
                作  zuò OC: tsaals MC: tsɑ
                作  zuò OC: tsaaɡ MC: tsɑk 74 AttributionsWD

                Zuò 作 (ant. shù 述"transmit") focusses on an autonomous initiative being taken, and the word can refer to a commendable act of creation as well as a reprehensible act of political disobedience. The word focusses on the product resulting of the action.

                  Word relations
                • Object: 法/LAW The current general word for a law, a legal system or any legal provision of any kind is fǎ 法.
                • Synon: 造/CREATE Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE
                • Oppos: 述/TRANSMIT Shù 述 (ant. zuò 作 "create") is to pass on something created by someone else.
                • Oppos: 循/CONFORM

                  Syntactic words
                • nabactbe created
                • nobjectcreation =所作
                • vadVas a (creative) innovationCH
                • vt(oN)frame or create new ones of the contextually determinate kind
                • vt[oN]create things, originate things
                • vtoNset up, originate (something), create, invent; produce; of texts: compose
                • vtoNconativework towards the creation ofCH
                • vtoNmiddle voicebe created; be composed
                • vttoN1.+N2changemake into
                • vttoN1.+N2perfectiveto create (something N1) (for somebody N2)
                造  zào OC: sɡuuʔ MC: dzɑu 30 AttributionsWD

                Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE

                  Word relations
                • Synon: 立/CREATE
                • Synon: 作 / 作 / 作/CREATE Zuò 作 (ant. shù 述"transmit") focusses on an autonomous initiative being taken, and the word can refer to a commendable act of creation as well as a reprehensible act of political disobedience. The word focusses on the product resulting of the action.

                  Syntactic words
                • vt(oN)create the contextually determinate N
                • vtoNmake up; fashion, create; invent QIMINYAOSHU 蔡倫立意造紙
                • vtoNpassivebe created from/by
                為  wéi OC: ɢʷal MC: ɦiɛ 12 AttributionsWD

                The most general word is probably wéi 為 and this is sometimes used to refer to the act of cultural invention or creation, and the connotation may be positive or negative. The word focusses on the act of making something as such rather than the product as such.

                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNfigurativePRODUCE> to invent, to create for the first time; create anew; create out of nothing
                • vtoNpassivebe createdLZ
                • vttoN1.+N2to create N2 for N1LZ
                造化  zào huà OC: sɡuuʔ hŋʷraals MC: dzɑu hɣɛ 11 AttributionsWD

                Zào huà 造化 refers to both the process of creation, and of spontaneous cosmic transformation.

                  Syntactic words
                • NPabprocesscreation and transformation, creative transformation
                • VP[adN]the fashioner and transformer of things (short for 造化者): the creator
                • VPicreate and transform things; create transformations
                • VPtoNcreate and transform
                創  chuàng OC: skhraŋs MC: ʈʂhi̯ɐŋ 5 AttributionsWD

                Chuàng 創 (ant. jì 繼 "continue a line") is a rare word referring to the initiative to start something.

                  Word relations
                • Object: 業/OFFICE Yè 業 refers to the traditional profession of a person and does not normally or necessarily relate to a place or to the bureaucratic system.
                • Synon: 立/ESTABLISH The current general word for setting up anything abstract or concrete is lì 立 and the almost equally common shè 設.

                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcreate, start up; write up from scratch
                造作  zào zuò OC: sɡuuʔ tsaaɡ MC: dzɑu tsɑk 5 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • VPtoNcreate
                • vt[oN]create things
                造化者  zào huà zhě OC: sɡuuʔ hŋʷraals kljaʔ MC: dzɑu hɣɛ tɕɣɛ 5 AttributionsWD

                  Word relations
                • Synon: 造化/CREATE Zào huà 造化 refers to both the process of creation, and of spontaneous cosmic transformation.

                  Syntactic words
                • NPagentthe agent that creates and transforms, fashions things: the creator
                立  lì OC: ɡ-rub MC: lip 4 AttributionsWD

                  Word relations
                • Synon: 造/CREATE Zào 造 is prototypically to fashion in the manner of a potter or founder, but the word often has a nuance of the arbitrary and comes to mean something like "fabricate". See also PRODUCE

                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcause to be established> invent
                作為  zuò wéi OC: tsaaɡs ɢʷal MC: tsuo̝ ɦiɛ
                作為  zuò wéi OC: tsaals ɢʷal MC: tsɑ ɦiɛ
                作為  zuò wéi OC: tsaaɡ ɢʷal MC: tsɑk ɦiɛ 4 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • VPtoNcreate; invent
                生  shēng MC: sraeng OC: sraaŋCH 3 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcreate, cause to exist on earthCH
                咒作  zhòu zuò OC: tjus tsaaɡ MC: tɕɨu tsɑk 2 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • VPtoNresultativecreate by incantation
                造物  zào wù MC: dzawX mjut OC: sɡuuʔ mɯdCH 2 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • NPabcreationCH
                • VP[adN]creator; CreatorCH
                撰  zhuàn OC: sɡroonʔ MC: ɖʐɣan 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcreate and form (e.g. battle array)
                父  fù OC: baʔ MC: bi̯o 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • npost-Ncreator of N; initiator (possibly to be read in the third tone, although the derivation is not so neat in that case)
                作造  zuò zào OC: tsaaɡs sɡuuʔ MC: tsuo̝ dzɑu
                作造  zuò zào OC: tsaals sɡuuʔ MC: tsɑ dzɑu
                作造  zuò zào OC: tsaaɡ sɡuuʔ MC: tsɑk dzɑu 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • VPtoNinvent and create
                生  shēng MC: sraeng OC: sraaŋCH 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • DELETEcreate, cause to exist on earthCH
                • vtoNpassivebe createdDS
                緯  wěi MC: hjw+jH OC: ɢulsCH 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNproduce texture> create, put together (text)CH
                興  xìng 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNbring about, make ariseCH
                制  zhì 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcreate, write, composeCH
                創  chuàng OC: skhraŋs MC: ʈʂhi̯ɐŋ 0 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcreate from scratch, build up ZGC: 刱邑"establish a city"
                制為  zhì wéi OC: kjeds ɢʷal MC: tɕiɛi ɦiɛ 0 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • VPtoNcreate as a social institution, institute
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                  Syntactic words
                • VP[adN]creator; CreatorCH
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                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNcreate, cause to exist on earthCH
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                  Syntactic words
                • vtoNproduce texture> create, put together (text)CH

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